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Week1

Introduction

  1. Who am I
  2. What do we do
  3. What can you expect
Weeks Contents Q&A
Week1 Command Line Basics
Week2 Command Line Basics Cont. TBR
Week3 Other Tools and Shell Scripting
Week4 Tools for C (and other languages) TBR
Week5 Algorithms: Sort and Search (and Paper)
Week6 Paper Continued TBR
Week7 Network Basics
Week8 Functional Programming: Haskell and Others TBR
Week9 Delve deeper into FP (A Real Project)
Week10 Continue + Q&A + Prepare for holiday :) TBR
Week11 Frontend Basics
Week12 Backend Basics TBR
Week13 Basic C++ and C++ vs. C
Week14 Ideas behind Modern C++ and STL TBR
Week15 Java vs. C++
Week16 Can we be safer? TBR
Week17 Algorithms: Dynamic Programming
Week18 Algorithms: Greedy TBR
Week19 Design Patterns
Week20 Special TBR

Uni-Related

  1. What will you learn in 1st/2nd term
Course Contents Coursework/Exam
Engineering Challenges (ENGF0001) A video + A bioreactor!
Design and Professional Skills 1 (ENGF0002) Learn some Python Tetris + Design a Protocol + Do a project + Presentation + Write a Report
Principles of Programming (COMP0002) Learn some C + Haskell Program a bot + Design a Set + Exam
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists (COMP0147) Set + Function + Group + Discrete Algorithms + Matrix Two online quizzes + Exam
Theory of Computation (COMP0003) Logic + Automata Exam
Object-Oriented Programming (COMP0004) Java Web Design + Exam
Algorithms (COMP0005) Search + Sort + Graph + String A trading platform + Exam
Mathematics and Statistics (COMP0011) Complex Number + Calculus + Vector Space + Matrix... Exam
  1. How could we support you
    • Week5: Algorithms: Sort and Search (and Paper)
    • Week7: Network Basics
    • Week9: Delve deeper into FP (A Real Project)
    • Week11: Frontend Basics
    • Week17-18: Algorithms

Logistics

  1. How to access the materials?
  2. Absence Policy
    • No absence policy!
  3. How should you use discord?
  4. Something about "the messages" in Discord
    • Exchangeable Image File Format

Setting up your environment

  1. Links here: Setting up your environment
  2. But more... (why not try vscode?)

vscode

  1. What is vscode?
  2. How could it empower your development? (a short demo on C/C++, Python (Jupyter), Haskell, Java)

Python

  1. Python

C/C++

  1. C/C++ from Microsoft
  2. clangd

Haskell

  1. Haskelly (created by UCL students)
  2. Haskell

Java

  1. Install Language support for Java for Visual Studio Code
  2. Maven for Java
  3. Test Runner for Java

Other Extensions

  1. Better Comments
  2. Error Lens
  3. Themes: One Dark Pro / vscode-icons
  4. Wakatime
  5. If you want to learn more tools: Trunk and Vim are waiting for you

Command Line

This section is inspired by Welcome to Linux command line for you and me!

The following contents are only for Unix-like OS. Some of them are exclusively for Linux.

Shell

  1. What is shell and terminal emulator?
  2. date, cal, tree, wc, echo
  3. Redirection and Pipes
  4. man page

Shell Tools

  1. If you are using zsh, you can install oh-my-zsh via brew
  2. Choose a theme (the default is good)
  3. Install some extensions
    • zsh-syntax-highlighting
    • zsh-autosuggestions
    • git
    • colored-man-page
    • z

File-related command

  1. cd, ls, rm, mkdir, touch, tee
  2. Their advanced options and meanings
    • File Permissions
    • chmod

Useful commands

  1. Soft Links and Hard Links
    • What are them?
    • How to create them?
  2. tar files
    • What are tar files?
    • Extraction
    • Compression
  3. Using sudo command
  4. Environment variables
    • PATH
    • printenv
    • shell variables
    • Create/Delete new environment variables ("permanent"/temporary)
  5. Sort files by size
    • use -S options from ls
    • use sort
  6. Some ! trick
    • Repeat previous n lines
    • Repeat the closest line starts with x
    • Repeat the closest line includes x

Networking Command (Optional)

Read this section iff you have some basic Network knowledge.

You can read the first two sections of Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS) before exploring the following topics.

  1. ping and traceroute
    • What is TTL?
    • How does traceroute work?
  2. DNS and its lookup rules
  3. hosts file
    • What is hosts?
    • Path
      • Windows: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
      • Mac: /etc/hosts